HP unwraps new products

HP made its annual splurge of enterprise product announcements at the Discover conference, in Las Vegas, this week, TechWorld reports.

The announcements fall into two main categories - converged infrastructure (including converged storage, networking and big data) and hybrid cloud.

HP said companies are increasingly looking for more joined-up solutions that simplify IT management and enable them to quickly adapt to market conditions. While HP has offered an extensive enterprise product set for some time, the company admits that it has not always presented it in a coherent way.

According to Server Watch, HP's CloudSystem is now being expanded such that burstable cloud demand can be delivered via Amazon, Saavis or HP's own cloud services infrastructure. With CloudSystem, enterprises can manage demand for their workloads and move them to a public or private cloud infrastructure as needed.

The new HP CloudSystem Matrix software is the orchestration layer, providing a graphical user interface for server admins to set up, deploy and manage cloud workloads.

"The HP Converged Cloud is all about making available a set of choices for our customers," Magdy Assem, VP Horizontal Solutions at HP, said. "I have yet to find a customer who is going all-private or all-public in the cloud."